The BEST part of JY is that he stirs up **** with controversial videos. A] its entertaining B] it makes people think. what was wrong with the 1911's suck video? I love shooting them but he's right as rain; a non custom 1911 will insert poop into bed in a stressful training environment. Glocks do not. Glock are nice and boring no surprises. Last night at training I saw the first round of a drill randomly eject the mag on a 1911. also it was the only necessary malf clearing in the last 2 months of training [besides a CZ].
It's not like he's lying. He's just trying to upset you. Maybe it makes you think. He didnt say they arent nicer to shoot or that they dont look nice.
-chris
Maybe I missed it - but the US Army successfully fielded non custom 1911 pistols in combat for 80+ years. Oh Big Red and I carried 1911's in Iraq as well, and the guns did not spontaneously combust either...
Biggest problem with 1911's is like AR's is too many morons building clones or ****ing with good ones.
I'm not bagging on the Glock, I think its the perfect stupid person gun, and they are reliable. They are a good green side pistol as well, as they deal with dirt and debris better than custom 1911's.
As for Jame Yeager. I know him, he shoots a Glock very very well. I disagree with several other aspects on him. He is a nice guy in person as well.
The ERSM ambush, James ****ed up, and there were equally stupid mistakes by many on that team. The one thing he did I agreed with is bail into the ditch, but not the way he did it. Cars - especially soft skin vehicles are NOT cover, they are bullet magnets. Sometimes people die out of bad luck - however the fact the Brit TL had no low pro experience and panicked and blew them and left a low pro team in the open and vulnerable left the team as a target. James ****ed up by putting it in neutral and then thought it was disabled when they took rounds. It was a general **** show, and handing out score cards they all got an F, however that's armchair QB'ing.
I took a class in Abby with TR when I was still in the CF, it was a poorly run class, and the students for the most part where not up to the drills. PiperDown (if he posts here anymore) and I where muzzled by a student on TD1 and none of the staff knew or did anything. I generally felt stupider for going to the class.
I took the HR Driving Class since Tony Scotti was partnered -- the driving stuff was good, but the shooting stuff was to heavy on suppressive fire -- fun but not teaching much.
As I said I like James as a person, he's a good guy and opened his house to us, but I would only recommend folks to listen to his pistol shooting, as anyone who can shoot a Glock that well with Big Dot sights is a decent shooter, * I'd also not listen to his ideas on Big Dot sights...
. I don't see a point of comparing something that I could not buy in Canada. M-4 (M-16), AK-47, AK-74, all of them have their pros and cons. What I liked about this guy is the fact that he said all the time "use what you comfortable with". I 100% agree with him about it. I used all three of them (actually 4, or even 5 counting Galil - Israeli AK) and I think it's unfair to compare such different riffles.
